Name: ｢山水‧人間｣ 吳增榮個展 開幕酒會
Start: 2025-04-19T16:00:00+08:00
End: 2025-04-19T18:00:00+08:00
Location: 文湖街20號1F 、 Taipei, Taiwan 114

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安卓藝術很榮幸於畫廊屆滿15周年的此時，推出台灣重要建築師與畫家吳增榮在畫廊空間舉辦的第二場個展「山水·人間」（Shan shui • the Earth），精選吳增榮從1996-2018年間完成的50幅畫作一次呈現。展覽訂於2025年4月19日至5月29日之間舉行，開幕酒會於4月19日(星期六)下午4點展開，我們誠摯邀請您的蒞臨。
水彩畫向來被視為是較油畫輕便的創作類型，也是多數畫家外出寫生時喜歡選用的媒材，即時、輕快、親密與透明度是水彩畫給人的普遍印象。出身建築背景的吳增榮，年輕時曾向李德習畫，並於中年時候離開建築界轉而投身水彩創作，用20多年的時間完成五百多件作品。而吳增榮以水沖畫面的特殊技法表現，混合水彩與壓克力顏料的使用，則顛覆了我們對於水彩畫的印象和想像，他彷彿從建築的視角為水彩畫開創另一條兼容歷史與人文積澱的厚實風格。
吳增榮的繪畫不是寫生，更多時候像是一種寫景與心靈寫照。他的畫作反映他內心深處那份沉鬱的性格與精神追求，畫面總是游移於具象與抽象、空間和色塊、油彩與水墨之間；而他的這種擺盪並非折衷主義手法，而更像是對於各種美學探索的嘗試。台灣熱情洋溢的光與色彩，日式美學的冷靜與疏離，中式文人水墨的孤高和淡遠，都在於他的水彩畫裡得以見到。他像是一位瑀瑀獨行的現代文人，儘管長年在台北都會生活，心中卻有一片廣闊的丘壑與天地供其翱翔。

On the cusp of our 15th anniversary, Mind Set Art Center is honored to launch “Shan Shui • The Earth”, a solo-exhibition of architect and watercolor artist Wu Tseng Jung. This will be Wu’s second solo show at the gallery and we will put on display more than 50 of his paintings completed between the year 1996 and 2018. The exhibit is set to run from April 19 to May 29, 2025, with a reception scheduled at 4:00 pm on opening day. We cordially invite you to join us at the event.
Watercolor painting has long been considered a more portable medium compared to oil painting. This quality makes it the preferred option for many artists for outdoors painting. The medium is generally associated with quick and light brush works, and rather high immediacy and transparency. Wu Tseng Jung studied painting under renowned painter Read Lee in his youth. Wu worked as an architect early on, but left the profession in midlife to pursue watercolor painting. Over the course of twenty years, he produced more than five hundred works. His unique methods of rinsing his paintings with water as well as mixing watercolor and acrylic have subverted our understanding of conventional watercolor techniques. It is as if he has taken inspiration from his architecture roots and blazed a new stylistic trail in watercolor, one that blends history and the humanistic perspective.
Wu Tseng Jung doesn’t produce mere live paintings, his works are more akin to a reflection of his inner self, including his melancholic personality and spiritual pursuit, with his composition perpetually oscillating between figuration and abstraction, between spatial depth and color patches, between oil and watercolor. The shifts in Wu’s artistic focus aren’t so much the result of eclecticism, but his way of exploring different aesthetics. The bright light and vibrant colors of Taiwan, the reserved detachment of Japanese aesthetics, and the aloof and ethereal quality of the Chinese literati ink painting all converge in his watercolor works. He is like a solitary literati artist in the modern day. Despite living in the metropolitan Taipei, Wu’s inner spirit soars above the vast canyons and sky.